Wikipedia article of the day is Carmen. Check it out: https://ift.tt/ZXBvWM Summary: Carmen is an opera in four acts which Georges Bizet set to a libretto by the team Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on Prosper Mérimée’s novella. When it was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875, its breaking […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Lionel Matthews. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2GTzRzc Summary: Lionel Matthews (15 August 1912 – 2 March 1944) was an Australian Army officer during World War II who was posthumously awarded the George Cross, the highest non-combat award for heroism for members of the Australian armed forces at the time. Matthews served […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Interstate 70 in Colorado. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2calBlg Summary: Interstate 70 passes through Colorado on its route between its western terminus at Cove Fort, Utah, and its eastern at Baltimore, Maryland. In western Colorado, the highway connects the metropolitan areas of Grand Junction and Denver via a route through the […]
Wikipedia article of the day is 1080° Snowboarding. Check it out: https://ift.tt/3uDYx65 Summary: 1080° Snowboarding is a 1998 snowboarding video game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development and published by Nintendo. It was released for the Nintendo 64 and re-released in 2008 for the Wii’s Virtual Console. In the game, the player controls one of […]
Wikipedia article of the day is The Body (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Check it out: https://ift.tt/222HXYY Summary: “The Body” is the sixteenth episode of the fifth season of the supernatural drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Written and directed by series creator Joss Whedon, it originally aired on The WB Television Network in the […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on February 26, 2021: Shrine room of the Dhowa rock temple near Ella, Sri Lanka https://ift.tt/3knxCXo
Wikipedia article of the day is Oryzomys gorgasi. Check it out: https://ift.tt/3uBaJ7t Summary: Oryzomys gorgasi, also known as Gorgas’s rice rat, is a rodent in the genus Oryzomys of the family Cricetidae. First collected as a living animal in 1967, it is known from only a few localities, including a freshwater swamp in the lowlands […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Grey currawong. Check it out: https://ift.tt/3dDTCfo Summary: The grey currawong (Strepera versicolor) is a large passerine bird native to southern Australia, including Tasmania. One of three currawong species, it is a large crow-like bird, around 48 cm (19 in) long, with yellow irises, a heavy bill, and dark plumage, with a […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Portrait of a Musician. Check it out: https://ift.tt/2DlroAL Summary: The Portrait of a Musician is an unfinished painting widely attributed to the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci. His only known male portrait painting, it was probably painted between 1483 and 1487 while Leonardo was in Milan. It has […]
Wikipedia article of the day is Margaret (singer). Check it out: https://ift.tt/2P3SgQQ Summary: Margaret (born 1991) is a Polish singer and songwriter. Before her mainstream debut, she performed with underground bands, recorded soundtracks for television commercials and produced a fashion blog. Through her blogging, she was discovered by music manager Sławomir Berdowski and signed by […]